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| Butte College Educators Association President Nancy Reyes and CTA President David A. Sanchez at the CTA Cuts Hurt Bus Tour stop at Butte. |
CCA activists will not rest over the summer – not while potentially devastating education budget cuts still loom.
Hundreds of CCA members will join their K-12 colleagues in keeping watch over the state Legislature’s budget process – which could be long and drawn out. Although the state budget is legally supposed to be signed, sealed and delivered by July 1, that hasn’t been the case for most of the years in the past decade. Because of the expected delays, CCA/CTA wants to make sure members can be quickly mobilized for action.
“We want to make sure we keep up the heat on our legislators during the summer,” said CCA President Ron Norton Reel. “There is too much to lose.” In the wake of the May Revision, the governor's proposed budget still slashes $4.3 billion from education. "While his decision to avoid suspension of Prop. 98 was a step in the right direction, the revised budget proposal still cuts billions from our classrooms," Reel notes.
In addition to having sent hundreds of post cards to legislators, CCA members have an opportunity to become part of a CTA database of volunteers committed to protecting Proposition 98 and the education budget. CCA members may sign up to become a Summer Budget Advocate by going to www.cta.org and clicking on State Budget Crisis.
